Dallas Stars at Toronto Maple Leafs: game preview
DallasStars2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 50-20-12 · 112 pts · 3rdat
TorontoMaple Leafs2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 32-36-14 · 78 pts · 28thThirty-four points apart last season
Dallas finished last season 3rd in the league on 112 points. Toronto finished 28th on 78.
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Meeting number 66
Across 65 completed games, Toronto lead the head-to-head 35-26-4.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each 2025-26 meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 21 Dec 2025, Dallas were 2nd in the league and Toronto 25th. By 13 Apr 2026 it was 3rd and 28th.
Toronto out-attempted Dallas 113 to 99
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Dallas Stars
Toronto Maple Leafs
Dallas have created the better chances, last 10 games
Shot quality both ways: expected goals weigh every unblocked attempt by its chance of scoring. Finishing above zero means more goals than the chances.
This season: 3 games for Dallas, 4 for Toronto. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Dallas, 10 for Toronto.
2025-26: 82 games for Dallas, 82 for Toronto.
Power play and penalty kill, season and series
This season's rates first, then 2025-26 and the last meetings between the two. Power-play chances are counted from the penalty log with coincidental minors cancelled; faceoffs are each club's wins over draws taken.
All bars share one scale · 0–100%SeasonLast meetings
Dallas
Small sampleToronto
Small sampleSkaters to watch
Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away.
Who has stopped this matchup
Save percentage in the last meetings by goalie. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Dallas crease
DAL · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 5 Mar
No appearances against Toronto in the last meetings.
Toronto crease
TOR · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 5 Mar
No appearances against Dallas in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.2 goals
No total is posted yet: it arrives with the game-day prices. Until then, the scoring rates and the recent meetings set the range.
Goals in the last 5 meetings
Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.
Scoring rates
Dallas2.002.003.402.76
Toronto2.752.753.093.65Goals for and against per game. The estimate averages each team’s scoring with the other’s goals allowed, and leans on 2025-26 until a team has played 20 games.
9 on the injury lists
Dallas · injuries
Toronto · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Assigned D Cameron Bertucci to Texas (AHL).
Placed F Matt Duchene on long-term injured reserve retroactive to Sept. 29. Recalled Fs Arttu Hyry and Colin Blackwell from Texas (AHL).
Signed G Casey DeSmith to a two-year contract.
Placed RW Nikita Grebenkin on injured reserve.
Moved C Max Domi from the non-roster list to long-term injured reserve.
Placed D Cade Webber on the injured non-roster list.
Dallas · 2026 draft
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